<p>Hello,</p>
<p>So I got a job this summer and I was planning on paying off my unsubsidized loan from my first year so that it doesn't continue to gain interest throughout my remaining three years. However, I remembered that loan balance is included on the FAFSA somewhere.
My question is whether paying off a small direct unsubsidized loan would make me ineligible to receive the same loan for future years? I do not want FA to think I do not need the loan, but if I have the money now to pay off one of them I'd like to get it out of the way. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>The loan balance is not included anywhere on FAFSA (unless it was a new thing for 2012-2013 - our final FAFSA was 2011).</p>
<p>Paying off the loan will not affect your eligibility to receive it in the future.</p>
<p>It’s on the last page of the FAFSA, under “Your Financial Aid History”. It lists each type of loan you have, and how much you have left to pay.</p>
<p>On the FAFSA form? I looked at the print out of my last one (last year) and there was nothing on it about loan balances. Is it a new thing?</p>
<p>edit: oh wait, do you mean the student aid report? Yes, that does show the loan balance. I thought you meant the actual FAFSA form that we complete shows loans.</p>
<p>Regardless, the school will not care that you pay off some of your loans.</p>